Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backing for a united Latin American front against Castro's Cuba. As the futile talk ended, Berle stuck out his hand to say goodbye. Quadros refused to shake it. Then, to the undisguised dismay of Brazilian Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, Quadros pointedly turned his back on the special envoy of the President...
...accounts of the incident spread across Brazil, a chorus of protest arose. Editorialized Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "The way Jânío Quadros received, or rather dismissed, President Kennedy's special envoy deserves sharp criticism from all Brazilians." The criticism spread to include the whole subject of Quadros' headlong rush to "neutralism" during his six weeks in office. Wrote the influential Jornal do Brasil, heretofore one of Quadros' staunchest supporters: "Quadros, who in his campaign stressed the impossibility of ignoring the importance and existence of Red China, now appears to ignore...
...Salvador. Five weeks after the overthrow of President José Maria Lemus, the U.S. is still withholding recognition from the six-man revolutionary junta until the State Department's Special Envoy Allan Stewart checks reports that the junta is a front for Castroites and Communists...
...French President and a special envoy of the Sultan of Turkey were on the flag-bedecked platform at Paris' Care de I'Est when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat...
...Rejected Rejection. Roa did not even bat an eye. He told the Brazilian envoy that his televised remarks were "correct judgments based on concrete facts." He called Argentina's protest "malicious," sneered that the "dignity of Argentina was defended at San Jose by the delegation from Cuba and not by the delegation from Argentina." In a cold rage Argentina rejected Roa's rejection and recalled its ambassador. These were episodes in what Cubans call "the new diplomacy." The chief characteristic is supposed to be plain statements to peoples over the heads of their governments...